COMMENTS GALORE ... 105

COMMENTS GALORE ... 105

Sugata Bose@YouTube [BBC NEWS/Roland Hughes] : Amit Chaudhuri and Chandak Sengupta, you being Bengalis should lap up the opportunity to learn how to pronounce Satyajit Ray's surname properly from the Westerners in this show. It is Raaye and not Ray, and it is quite a shame that you should be mispronouncing thus. And Chandak, you are Satyajit Ray's biographer at that. Shame, both of you!

Sugata Bose@YouTube [Adnan Parvez] : I am surprised to see Satyajit Ray pronounce his surname as Ray instead of Raaye which it truly is, a fact made amply clear by Audrey Hepburn while announcing the Honorary Oscar Award for Lifetime Achievement for the master filmmaker months before his death. So, the popular mispronunciation of Satyajit's surname was partly on account of his own doing as well which under the then circumstances may have seemed alright but does sound odd today. At any rate I believe Satyajit Ray never mispronounced his father Sukumar Ray's surname thus but pronounced it right as Raaye. 

Sugata Bose@Oneness is never achieved through effort over a period of time. It either is or is not. It is a spontaneous understanding of union that ever was from the very beginningless beginning and will continue till the endless end.

Sugata Bose@To see my messages going unobserved and, naturally, unresponsive to, is no longer distressing.

Sugata Bose@A goodly wait, a godly wait.

Sugata Bose@Jyoti Prasad Das : You have flattened opposition by this single discovery of the Deen, the birth of the flat earth.

Sugata Bose@Anuradha Bera : একেবারে ঠিক কথা বলেছেন | যে সকল রত্ন সব চলে যাচ্ছেন, তাঁদের জায়গা কেউই নিতে পারছেন না | এর থেকে বোঝা যায় যে সাংস্কৃতিক অবনমন ক্রমাগত হচ্ছে যার পরিণাম বড় ভাল নয় কারণ সংস্কৃতিই সভ্যতার ধারক ও বাহক | এই জন্য আমাদের নিজেদের সংস্কৃতিসম্পন্ন হতে হবে বেশী করে, অনুপ্রাণিত করতে হবে তাঁদের যাঁরা প্রতিভাধর | তাঁদের রচনার যথাযথ সমাদর করতে হবে | উপযুক্ত পরিবেশ তৈরি করতে হবে পরিবারে যথাসম্ভব যাতে সংস্কৃতির বিকাশ ক্ষেত্রবিশেষে ক্ষেত্রের অভাবে অঙ্কুরে না বিনষ্ট হয় | আসুন, সকলে মিলে শংকরের উপন্যাসগুলি আবার পড়ি, পড়ে আনন্দ পাই | আমরা তাঁর পাঠককুল যদি তাঁর বইগুলি আবার পড়ি, ত' আমাদের কর্তব্যটি অন্তত পালন করলাম, এইটিই সন্তুষ্টি | স্বামীজী আক্ষেপ করেছিলেন যে আমাদের দেশে একটি নেতা গত হলে তাঁর জায়গা নেওয়ার মত সমকক্ষ আর একটি নেতা পেতা অন্তত একটি প্রজন্ম অপেক্ষা করতে হয় কারণ দেশে সর্বসাধারণ শিক্ষিত নন | আজও সেই অবস্থা | শিক্ষার বহুল প্রসার হয়ে থাকলেও মান নেমেছে এবং সংস্কৃতির এমনই অধঃপতন ঘটেছে যে বড় বড় ব্যক্তিত্ব কোন' ক্ষেত্রেই আর বড় একটা জন্মাচ্ছেন না | তাই সাহিত্যিক শংকরের প্রয়াণ সত্যিই অপূরণীয় ক্ষতি হয়েই থাকবে, এই রকমই মনে হয় আমার | এখন তাই প্রাচীনকেই পুনঃগ্রহণে সমাজ, সভ্যতা ও সংস্কৃতির রক্ষা---এই মনে হয় |

Sugata Bose@YouTube [Debdatta Thakur ---Agantuk] : Dipankar De is too loud and theatric, utterly inharmonious with the rest of the cast. He remains one of those actors who become stars simply on the basis of looks and whatever else but certainly good acting skills. One wonders why Satyajit Ray could not or did not temper down his over-acting.

Sugata Bose@Ipsita Mukherjee : Grand news. Bless you! Bless you! Bless you! And bless the baby to be!

Sugata Bose@YouTube [Adda Station--Alokananda Roy (Kanchenjungha)] : Why does the interviewer interrupt the flow of the interviewee's recollection?

Sugata Bose@Sulekha Basu : You are a luminous soul and you write with complete creativity which is rather rare. Swamiji had said, "Our Master was so original and each one of us will have to be so or nothing." This creativity, this originality of thinking and expression thereof in beautifully worded phrases and passages your writings are replete with, makes you a worthy bearer of Swamiji's charge as generation after generation his followers in their individual and collective capacity carry forward the beacon for humanity in its onward evolution, the torch of civilisation illumining the path through the darkness of the cosmos. Read 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' daily and the blaze of illumination will be on you. With a fervent aspiration and the seer's vision Swamiji had anticipated the appearance of great women in India who would combine the spiritual traditions of our beloved motherland and the social freedom of the West, the perfect synthesis of unsullied purity and executive independence, a la Gārgi, Maitreyee, Leelāvati, Ubhaybhārati who would usher in a new civilisation here in Punyabhūmi Bhārat whose ripples would spread to the remotest corners of the globe. When I behold in you the early dewdrops of this awakening dawn of India's freedom with its spherical cast reflecting a whole world of chromatic possibilities, I feel gratified that the sage's prophecies and promises have not been in vain. Carry on in your own way your self-culture and with it spread the fragrance around as dawn brightens to morn and then blazes to a brilliant noon. In that high noon of stellar becoming may you be fulfilled unto light and freedom! 🕉

Sugata Bose@YouTube [Meghdhut---Goutam Ghosh's documentary on Satyajit Ray] : After Audrey Hepburn, despite being a westerner, has pronounced it right as Rāyey, what is Aparnā Sen doing calling the maestro Ray (as in 'day') as he himself had during his lifetime unfortunately addressed himself to possibkt perpetuate the practice, dare I say?

Sugata Bose@Arijit Majumder : I hope you have not mistaken me to be Netaji's grand nephew Prof. Sugata Bose who is my namesake and who most people somehow confuse me with. I am of humbler descent, proud that I am though of my own ancestral lineage which ultimately is the common inheritance of man in his source, course and confluence of flow as we tend to the divine destination whence we have sprung. Thanks nonetheless for your valued appreciation which is fillip for my furtherance as an insignificant writer of sorts aspiring to make a mark on my readers with a view to striking sympathetic chords to awaken a common consciousness in combating the corruption of the times. 🕉

Sugata Bose@Bruce Hilliger : I am indebted to you, my senior in this quest for Truth the Ramakrishna way which is intensely individual as it is coordinated collective. 🕉

Sugata Bose@Khalid Umar : Hope so but I do not think it will be quite that easy an apostasy en masse, for culture has its consequential roots embedded deep in even a revolutionary society. It will take several more decades. Meanwhile, Islam will reinvent itself to once more coax unsuspecting Iranians into its progressively fanatical fold. It works like gravity along an inclined plane that dips progressively under its own weight till it becomes a perilous precipice persecuting people with its original precepts which are hardly principled enough to be called principles. But Islam will fail and eventually fall, for its doctrine is incompatible with modernity, and modernity is an irreversible entity that will either be adhered to or such ideologies as are patently regressive will be cast aside as so much waste material into the cosmic bin. 🕉

Sugata Bose@Reata Kal : Thoroughly read the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira. Then activism thus will be well grounded. Knowledge is power. Islam as Deen must be understood, its inspiration, intent, aims and objectives clearly comprehended. Alongside read Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup, K.S. Lal and Jadunath Sircar, relevant material that will help build foundational knowledge necessary to wage this ideological war. Your posts are pertinent and I am happy to have discovered them. May Swamiji bless you! 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose@Reata Kal : 'Joy Bangla' was coined to counter West Pakistan's Urdu thrust on East Pakistani Bengalees. But after independence and the creation of Bangladesh the slogan persisted to prevent the Pakistan-backers, the Razākārs, in Bangladesh from gaining the political upper hand. Mujib's half-hearted attempts to sort of secularise Bangladesh, primarily to keep his seat intact, not forgetting his fundamental Islamic stance as evident in the Great Calcutta Killing of 1946 followed by the Noākhāli Hindu genocide which spread throughout East Bengal forcing Partition ('ladke lenge Pakistan') and his post-liberation (1971) allowance of progressive Islamisation of Bangladesh must be critically scrutinised, especially his damning of Bangladeshi Hindus as 'Malāun' or the accursed infidel bereft of Allah's grace. That Mujib himself perished to the political forces in 1975 does not absolve him of his political perfidies following the dictates of the Divine Deen for which Akhanda Bhāratvarsha got diabolically dismembered with its endless genocidal implications for Hindus in Bangladesh and no less here in India during those dark days of Partition. What was true of Islamic persecution during East Pakistan days (1947--71) was true post 1971 and has been true till date under the guise of secular democracy and in an undisguised brazen way as well post the end of Sheikh Hasina's rule in 2024. 'Joy Bangla' has attracted liberal Bangladeshis in large numbers for long and does so even today but the number of such liberals have been a minuscule for long and are near non-existent today. Bangladesh is de facto an Islamic state and will become legally so like its 56 other sister states across the world before long as the exodus of Hindus and other minorities nears completion. Till then the facade of 'Joy Bangla' will continue with Islamic operations carrying on behind it till the facade is required no more. Mujib was the right-hand man of Husseyn Shaheed Sohrawardy, his accomplished accomplice in engineering Islamic murderous misdeeds against the Hindus. If this be their best illustration of tolerance, secularism and liberalism, what may be expected from the rest of Bangladesh who wield power either from the political platform or from the political pulpit. Islam after all, it must be remembered, is a political ideology in religious mask aimed at domination of the world. Period! 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose@Reata Kal : Islamophobia is a clever ploy designed to silence criticism of Islam. At any rate fear of Islam is legitimate, given its violent agenda, ways and means. Hence, it is not a phobia which means the irrational and unwarranted fear of something. Islamophobia is, thus, a misnomer that serves the political agenda of the utopian red-green combine.

Sugata Bose@Sulekha Basu : Any creative interpretation is welcome, and you are always creative. Your way of putting it is certainly valid.

Sugata Bose@Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Fight or flight to keep up the fight like Rash Behari Bose. Waging a war of ideas as well to defeat the foe ideologically and making his flimsy edifice sink into the sand.

Sugata Bose@Rajendra Kundu : Terrorist ideology. As far as terror states are concerned nearly all major powers would require close scrutiny.

Sugata Bose@Swami Bhavatmananda : Disgusting effeminacy utterly disliked by Swamiji. Monastics owing lineage to such an illustrious masculine preceptor who had in his twilight years declared, "My message can be summed up in one word---manhood", ought to reflect on their heritage in this regard and alter attributes and action in accordance. [Reference: monks effeminately dancing to the tune of an effeminate kīrtan at Māyer Bāri]

Sugata Bose @Vishwaprasad Sediyapu :  That will be better than the law of an arbitrary absolutist God, the dark invention of man barely emerging from tribalism.

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Missed the century but great batting. Bravo!

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : I know. Batting it at hockey. You are an expert hockey player, juggling here with the stick like Ronaldinho does with his magical feet at the football. That you retain this youthful vigour at this age does prove Sukumar Ray right that age after 40 goes backward. Glory unto you and further regression in years, not in experience!

Sugata Bose @Pk Ray : Pray but keep the powder ready.

Sugata Bose @Gerald J Bennis : You are erudite. Keep educating people about Islam. It is the imperative of the hour.

Sugata Bose @Yusuf Desai I am not laughing. I am wondering how you can be so ignorant about the text of your scriptures. God bless you for you are divine like all are, and you most of all, for your native goodness that has not yet been sullied by corrosive scriptural verses that have infected the minds of hundreds of millions for well over a millennium and devastated civilisations the world over. And now you say that it was all done in the name of peace, that it was all peaceful with no compulsion attending it. Bravo! Fantasy has its limits.

P.S. Your surname suggests that you are or were a Sanātani which latter case you sure were, perhaps converted to the faith which perchance you now vouch for. I request you to read 'The Complere Works of Swami Vivekananda' with veneration and you will be greatly benefited, brother.

Sugata Bose @Swami Arthobodhananda : বলবেন বইকি মহারাজ | থামবেন না | আপনার লেখা উজ্জ্বল, মানুষকে পথ দেখায় | যে যাই বলুক, খুব লিথুন | আমি পড়তে চাই |

Sugata Bose @Devyani U Zamindar : And the last page will open up to unite you forever truly in your essence that is the Atman/Brahman. Bless you both with love all along the way unto the final loving dissolution into each other with hopefully the faintest distinction left to savour the love that has thus in freedom blissfully bound you!

Sugata Bose @Bhabakrushna Mohapatra : Persecutors who create mayhem in the world with boys' toys ought to be, not me, for I do not so persecute. Thanks for your advice, peremptory though in manner, nonetheless, for it carries a general message which applies to you as well, especially in the context of your comment, ill-directed and ill-timed as it is, hence inevitably necessitating self redirection. Such reflexive amendment is highly commended and commendable indeed it is. So, up and be doing. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Swami Atmarupananda : Maharaj, in these times of desperate needs when frustration and fear grip us all, your words of wisdom and great love for humanity kindle courage in us who care as much for our human family, now under primitive punishment from agencies scarce advanced in humanity since primeval times. This piece has been empathetic enough to have consoled disconsolate me, resonating feelings that I can scarce share adequately with any, for these are troubled times culturally as well when callousness to human suffering has become commonplace. Your spirituality touches us, your honesty, transparency and simple feeling for fellow humans, they make impressions deep enough to inspire courage and conviction in the greater good that underlies all manifesting evil that have come to beset our beautiful world. Eagerly waiting for your next articulation here on Facebook for I have no other access to your thoughts than this which is a treasure trove for me, replete as it is with holy and sincere thoughts emanating from the depths of an old monk who has seen much of life with two earthly eyes and a third hidden one that reveals deeper truths. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Have you a heart to feel that you so carelessly quote scripture? Is this the purport of any scripture after all? Is this outlook not the bane of our misguided civilisation that has so often chosen to place analysis over feeling and amending the state of things? Do you feel?

Sugata Bose @Rinita Mazumdar : Let it be Islamophobic if he so deems it to be but keeping affirming it nonetheless. Islamophobia is a nice ploy to prevent criticism of Islam, we all know it. So, who cares for these apologists of Islam? Let facts be brought to the fore. Let truth prevail over the falsity of fabricated terms such as Islamophobia. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : Sizeable sarcasm symptomatic of Sanjeev Shrivastava.

Sugata Bose @Delphine Avigaïl Ezerzer Vanderydt : No heart, no head, no body, no soul. Deeply spiritual people are shallow in understanding for there is none but the pure Self, the One that is not, even as the One that is.